Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-07-22
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Itevoltttluiti RDd, more recently, q srhool.
tcarlicr III q retired portion OF North
Caro'ina, wliesc mysterious lcmeanor and
history were sucl, as to tivet the univer-
en- tunvi.tiul,, among his pupils and
patterns, TINT lie MAS none other than the
for icxrrrt examination.
Tho day w.ls>a tinn one, and hundreds
OF thu lrRiing citizens of this Rowai,)
a,t'i t,l1inins counties, inelnding n mum.
Der oi NeSs oil pupils, press reporters,
mn:u.er. Nes's biographcr, and a corps OF
physiciafs, were here at tho cemetery,
vhcli Is two miles from Third Creek Sta.
uon, ON the Western North Carolina
Rsi'rsld and ten miles from Salisbury,
the cnunty site.
Reforc stating the result Of the iiivcsti-
Sa' I'm. i is deemed not inappropriate to
Arirli, in brief. n few incidents OF the life
o: u. S' Nry,. since his arrival in tl,ia
country, IT'S gathered from his pupils and
eull''i from various Newspaper accounts.
Peter Stuart Ncy landed ut Charleston,
S. Go the 2iltl, OF January, 1916. After
remaining in Suiith Carolina a short time
he removed to Virginia, wllrre he resided
until about the year 1S20, when nc camo
IN l'avic County. North Cnfnliia aud eli.
gagr,l i'll scliool-tcaching. He taught the
Greek and the Latin language, as well MS
the English. IIeswas exceptionally good
In mathematics, OF which hc seemed 10 he
very fond. lie was man OF srlcnlid
executive ability, and rigid discipline.
rlan. However, hc easily secured the
love, amounting almost to vcncration, OF
his pupils, who, in the language OF ono oi
thrm would have fought for him and
dir,l for him had 1t been necessary.
lie was IL man. q little under six feet in
hight" ellis length was found to be five
te 1 ten inches, by actual measurement,
i,ii'ie by the corps ofphysicians, In May.)
"iic was not very fesl,y, but quite mus
cular, and weighed about two hundred
ronpls His head was nearly bald, and
showed a scar OH one side-tle lcft-ex-
tending from the temple tswarl the CEN
ter oil the crown. His fnco was slightly
marked with smallpox"
oii one occasion, ho communicated to
pupil Col, I. +. Huston, the particulars
o. !he Rnss:an campaign, recounting the
dimcuitics of the retreat, and the hnrd.
chips endured, and narrating how Hapo-
i"nn rrbrare,i him and called him the
srnrest Of the brave" He gave 10 Colo
uri Huston the secret OF his escape. He
pts'~d that the platoon detailed TO do the
D. sdy work were soldiers of his COM
sssh that they had been secretly in
- .st~d 10 'sim high'; that he refused to
aa-v the ibnn,lage 10 be placed over his
s<.a thathe himself gave the command
70 4te'; that they fired aud l,o fcll and
was pronounced dead by the attending
Physirinns who where in tho conspiracy
That his body WIS Mt once TUNED over TO
his friends who secretly conveyed him to
Hnr,lrsux, whence he sailed for america.
Solnncl Huston narratcs tint some
ycais since lie met, near Setnlia. Mo-, his
N nj n
lip l'eiric. AMI that this Frenchman re-
lutr,l to him the following story:
81 once belonged to Marshal News COM
mand. After the fall OF Napoleon and
the capture of Ney, deserted tho French
army, and making my way to bordeaux
in December 1915, shipped as q seaman
m boarl vessel bound for Charlcsten;
). q. When several days out, ! noticed
man on board whose appearance struck
me for,.il,ly, and thought knew him.
Cl'on reflection, concluded 1t Must be
ilarsl, ii Ney. When seeing him second
line ! ncrostc,l him, and told him
thrigllt knew. him. Who dou YOU think
an? he questioned. i replied: My
ni commander. Marshal Ncy' In very
rn'. ,unc hrirrsron.le,l: 'AIarchal Ney
Mas shut in Taria sir and turning upon
rs heel he went to his cabin, and I saw
.''ih Ivy itiUCt tiittlHil NC MelC Unity nY6
LAYS reaching Charleston"
From n letter to The Landmark, written
Nsy 9Th, 1855, By Burgess Gaitlcr, Esq,
=. tnrini'er of the General Assembly
4 North Carn!ina. from Davie County, /
,rn,c substantially: ar was myself n p,,.
nj of MIR. Ney in 1892. Cno day saw
I'm hive a large. manuscript in his hand,
which we had just completed, and which
IL sai'l lie would leave in his trunk. to tell
- who he was sllauld he die in this coun-
sy. SOON after this, he told me he
lio',sl,t he would soon bo permitted to
r turn to France; that Young Napoleon
vas about coming to manhood, aud would
pon be- Emperor OF France that then he
.pul,l return to his nativc land; that he
you'll be Marshal Ney; that people
thought Marshal Ncy had been shot !;
iliat l,ouis hal ordered old veterans to
shoot liin,; that ON the way to tho place
n execution an officer whispered to him
~, fall at tho word fire, and leave tho
ysl 10 his friends !; that he did as direc-
tel, the balls all passing over him, struck
IL. planking, in his rear, ct the proper
hight
TEe Rev. Mr.. Albca, nm agcd but at
one time n prominent minister of the
Methodist Church, says:
~ was ono of Ney's pupils. He was a
noblc-lopkins man, and showed his mill
l.ry training in his every step and move
'ncnt. | do not hesitate to say that in
ny nlMninn he WAS none other than the
great Marshal Of tho Empire"
Mrs. NJ. G. Dalton, lady now living,
of unusual intelligence and Information,
q wlinsc fathers house Mr. Ncy boarded
ior several sessions, says:
ain as thoroughly convinced of the
iart that he WIS Marshal Ney as am of
asy own existence -. 3. saw him once,
wien he had been drinking perhaps.
ttscn MP from the road in a sttIpor and
fs,: across a horse TO be carried to the
,usc. This aroused him.. and his invol-
miary expression, as well remember.
WIS; Wliat! put the Duke of Elchihgen
on q horse like q sark & :Pgt.nlc .down'in
DIR. j. u. X. Adams says:
II have been entirely satisfied in nv
own mini since 1872 that r. S. Ney, who
j.i,mgl,t school within a cwlhun,lre,i yards
nf my residence. for Two years or more
-, - : -a: -: buried in Thiri Greek Church.
syar,E w;t5 the vrritable Marshal New y
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